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Alison Young, MD

Diagnosis

mastocytosis urticaria pigmentosa

Body Site

leg thigh

Age

50 years

Pigmentation

light

Organization

scattered

Color

red

Morphology

macular / flat (macule / patch)

Pattern

generalized, disseminated

Comments

This healthy 50-year-old man complained of a slowly progressive intermittently pruritic generalized eruption. Skin biopsies showed changes typical of mastocytosis.

Description

red brown macules and papules

Categories

hyperpigmentation papulosquamous eruptions

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3/4/2004 21:16:24

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